Using an irreverent love of painting and an absurdly Oedipal desire to destroy it, this class looks at ways to create fantastical, hybridized, bastardized offspring “paintings” in the expanded field. We will connect painterly gestures with non-traditional surfaces such as modular, flat-pack, and portable sculptural form, found objects, architectural space, virtual space, video projection, performative action, and the body. Class presentations and discussions will take place in parallel with making to provide historical context, connections to the traditions of painting, and practical solutions. Color workshops, woodshop authorizations, material sourcing field trips, video projection/performance workshops, and site-specific installations will be components of this class. A willingness to experiment, invent, imagine, and fail is required.

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- Claire Ashley -

Claire Ashley received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and her BFA from Gray’s School of Art in Aberdeen, Scotland. Originally from Edinburgh, Scotland, Ashley is now Chicago-based and teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in the Departments of Contemporary Practices and Painting and Drawing. She is represented by Galleri Urbane Marfa + Dallas, TX. Ashley’s work investigates inflatables as painting, sculpture, installation and performance costume. These works have been exhibited nationally and internationally in galleries, museums, and site-specific installations, performances and collaborations. Her work has been featured on blogs such as VICE, Hyperallergic, and Artforum, and in magazines such as Sculpture Magazine, Art Papers, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Time Out Chicago, Yorkshire Post, and Condé Nast Traveller.

- Kori Newkirk -

Kori Newkirk:Parade, 2016metal, rubber, plastic, feather

Kori Newkirk earned his BFA, from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and his MFA from the University of California, Irvine and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Newkirk’s solo exhibitions include the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Art Gallery of Ontario, LAXART, the Fabric Museum and Workshop, Locust Projects and Deep River. Group exhibitions include the Whitney Biennial, the Dakar Biennial, the Serpentine, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Hammer Museum, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles. He has been awarded grants and fellowships by FOCA, Art Matters, The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, The California Community Foundation, The William H. Johnson Foundation and The Joan Mitchell Foundation. His work has been discussed in Artforum, Los Angeles Times, Interview, New York Times, Frieze, art ltd., Flash Art, and Vibe.

This course will trace the roots of underground publishing and artist-published objects and ephemera. Students will create a body of work based on assignment prompts and self-directed projects related to their individual practices through an idea-centered, research-based approach to building images and content. Class meetings will be used for technical demonstrations (silkscreen, xerox monotypes & image transfers, letterpress monoprints, zines & basic bookbinding structures), looking at prints and printed matter, work time on projects, individual mentoring and consultations, critiques of work, and discussions of readings.

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- Breanne Trammell -

Breanne Trammell is a multi-disciplinary artist and Friday Night Lights enthusiast. Her studio practice explores objects and icons from popular culture, the confluence of highbrow and lowbrow, and mines from her personal history. Trammell’s publishing imprint, Teachers Lounge, operates as a forum to explore subversive topics and reveal hidden histories related to education, activism, politics, sports, and visual culture. Her work has been widely exhibited and she has been an artist-in-residence at the Women’s Studio Workshop, Ox-Bow School of Art, Kala Institute, Endless Editions, Zz School of Print Media, The Wassaic Project, and Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts. Trammell received her MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and is an Assistant Professor of Fine Arts at the University of Cincinnati.

In this course students will fabricate visual languages and material structures to embody building and form. A range of introductory techniques and technologies will be presented, applicable to both ceramic sculpture and functional pottery. Core techniques of wheel throwing, hand building, and basic mold making will be introduced, along with rudimentary computer modeling and parametric design. Emphasis will be placed on thinking through volume, geometry, proportion, composition, and context. Daily exercises will include technical demonstrations, sketching, form development, and surface design.

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- Del Harrow -

Del Harrow, Fake Olmec, 2017, ceramic (stoneware)

Del Harrow lives and works in Fort Collins, CO with his wife, potter Sanam Emami and their son, William. He is an Associate Professor at Colorado State University where he teaches Sculpture, Digital Fabrication, and Ceramics. His art practice spans the genres of sculpture and design and integrates traditional manual and skill-based forming processes with digital fabrication technology. Harrow has been invited to lecture widely on his own work and on the intersection of digital fabrication and craft in contemporary art and education. Recent lectures include Syracuse University/The Everson Museum of Art, The Auerbach Endowed Lecture Series at Hartford Art School, and the Current Perspectives Lecture Series at Kansas City Art Institute. His work has been exhibited recently at The Milwaukee Art Museum, The Denver Art Museum, The Arizona State University Art Museum, Vox Populi Gallery, The Museum of Fine Art in Boston, Haw Contemporary in Kansas City, and Harvey Meadows Gallery in Aspen, CO.

- Sanam Emami -

Sanam Emami, Jar, 2017, ceramic (stoneware)

Sanam Emami is a ceramic artist and an Associate Professor of Pottery at Colorado State University, Fort Collins. She received a BA in History from James Madison University in Virginia, and an MFA in Ceramics from New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University. She was a Visiting Assistant Professor in Ceramics at Alfred University, resident artist at the Archie Bray Foundation in Montana, and has lectured at the Office for the Arts at Harvard University; the Kansas City Art Institute; Arizona State University Art Museum-Ceramic Research Center, and NCECA in Louisville, Kentucky. She received a New York Foundation for the Arts Grant for Craft and her work has been in exhibitions at numerous galleries across the country including The Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston; Greenwich House Pottery, New York City; The Art-Stream Nomadic Gallery; Northern Clay Center, Minnesota.

This course offers hands-on glassblowing experience to the beginner. Participants learn a variety of techniques for manipulating molten “hot glass” into vessel or sculptural forms. Lectures, videos, demonstrations, and critiques will augment studioinstruction.

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- Bohyun Yoon -

Yoon’s art practice is very much influenced by the fields of science and physics as his work continuously exposes what is often invisible. Yoon exposes socially constructed notions of race, class, and gender by combining images of the human body with materials that possess invisible properties. To aid the physical properties of glass in speaking about society, Yoon’s art uses a variety of media and phenomena, for instance sound, reflection, and human perception. Yoon Received MFAs from both Rhode Island School of Design and Tama Art University. He has exhibited his works in FILE Sao Paulo, Singapore Open Media Art Festival, Museum of Arts and Design NY, Renwick Gallery in the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Syracuse University and Hunter College. His work is in the collection at Smithsonian American Art Museum, Song Eun Art Space, Tama Art University and West Collection.

Paper is an exciting and elusive art medium. Paper pulp can be transformed into sculptural works, drawings with pulp and unusual surface textures. It can allude to skin, metal, rock, or represent something entirely unique. In class, we will explore these possibilities as we examine other artists using pulp as a contemporary medium. Traditional and non-traditional processes, tailored to the capabilities of each fiber, will be explored.Stretch your artistic and technical skills to createunusual works of art.

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- Andrea Peterson -

Andrea Peterson is an artist and educator. She lives and creates work in northwest Indiana Hook Pottery Paper, a studio and gallery co-owned with her husband. She teaches at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Andrea exhibits internationally, most recently in a paper arts exhibit Nature I Impression at the Municipal Gallery in Beer Sheva, Israel. She combines paper arts, printmaking and book arts to make works that address human relationship to the environment. She is a recipient of a 2016/17 Indiana Arts Council Grant.

Creatives often subscribe to various conceptual models in order to generate or present their ideas.But what happens when the preexisting models don’t suit us? And how do we become agents? How can we project coherence within our multiple interests? This course will explore the traditional models of the studio and the exhibition space and how to find agency in the liminal space in between. Looking at the practices of artists likeRick Lowe, Hope Ginsburg and Chemi Rosado-Seijo among others, students will explore how traditional models of practice and display have been challenged and transformed. During this course, students can choose to focus on challenging notions of the studio and the exhibition space to create alternative models that relate to their own practices. Final projects can take the form of sketches, diagrams, sculptures, installations, papers, interviews, lectures, collaborations, performance or magic.

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- Edra Soto -

Edra Soto (b. Puerto Rico) is a Chicago-based artist, educator, curator, and co-director of the artist-run project space THE FRANKLIN. She obtained her MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2000, as well as attended residencies at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture; Beta-Local; Robert Rauschenberg Foundation; Project Row Houses; Arts/Industry at Kohler and Headlands Center for the Arts. Her work was featured at the Pérez Art Museum Miami; The Arts Club of Chicago and Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. She co-curated the exhibition Present Standard at the Chicago Cultural Center with overwhelmingly positive reviews from the Chicago Tribune, Newcity, PBS, The Art Assignment and Artforum. She was featured in Newcity’s annual Art 50 issue Chicago’s Artists’ Artists and at VAM Studio 2017 Influencers and awarded the Efroymson Contemporary Arts Fellowship.

This course will focus on the materials and techniques of transparent watercolor. During the morning sessions, students will work from a studio still life and explore a variety of techniques and color schemes. Sessions will be individualized as much as possible to accommodate less experienced students. Afternoons will be devoted to a thematic suite of paintings developed over the course of the week.

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- Carrie Gundersdorf -

Carrie Gundersdorf lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She has had solo exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Julius Caesar, Chicago; and Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago. Her work has been in included in group exhibitions at Mills College Art Museum, San Francisco; 106 Green, Brooklyn; Regina Rex, New York; La Box, Bourges, France; Marc Foxx, Los Angeles; Gallery 400, Chicago; Loyola Museum of Art, Chicago; and Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, among others. Her work has been discussed in Art Review, Artforum.com, Artnet, Art on Paper, Bad at Sports, Chicago Tribune, and Time Out Chicago. Gundersdorf was the recipient of the Artadia Award and the Bingham Fellowship from the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Gundersdorf is an Assistant Adjunct Professor at Columbia University and has previously taught at School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Northwestern University and the University of Illinois at Chicago. She has a BA from Connecticut College and a MFA from SAIC.

A hands-on studio workshop for those with some glassblowing experience. Students will learn a variety of techniques for manipulating molten “hot glass” into vessel or sculptural forms. Lectures, demonstrations, videos, and critiques will augment studio instruction.

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- Mert Ungor -

Mert UngorCurved Leaf, 2017blown glass

Mert Ungor was born in Antalya, Turkey. He graduated from the Visual Arts Program of Sabanci University, focusing on sculpture. During his last year at university he had a chance meeting with glass. He applied and was accepted as a TA at the Glass Furnace Istanbul. Mert had a chance to assist many different glass artists from all around the world. He was invited to West Texas A&M University to pursue his Masters. During his studies Mert interned at the Tacoma Museum of Glass where he worked with their team to assist master glass artists, such as Lino Tagliapietra. Mert lives in Michigan and works as a glass artist at Water Street Glassworks.

This intensive will start with the fundamental techniques of forging, and move quickly into more advanced projects. We will focus on the processes of moving material while hot, and the forge and anvil will be the primary tools of achieving form. As a corollary, the history of forged ironwork (architectural, tools, and sculpture) will serve as a source of inspiration. Each student will also be encouraged to make an inflated sheet metal sculpture.

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- Mike Rossi -

Mike Rossi Mass Effect: Horizon, 2016forged steel, maple

Mike Rossi is the principal of Rossi Metal Design based in Philadelphia, specializing in unique architectural works and sculpture. Born in Pontiac, Michigan, he has a BFA in Blacksmithing from Northern Michigan University, and an MFA in Metalsmithing from Cranbrook Academy of Art. He has exhibited nationally and internationally, most recently at the Torpedo Factory in Alexandria, VA as well as the National Ornamental Metals Museum in Memphis, and the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft. He has taught at Ox-Bow School of Art, Penland School of Craft, Haystack Mountain School of Craft, Bryn Athyn College and Kalamazoo College, and recently completed the Windgate Artist Residency at San Diego State University.

Party As Form takes the history of celebration as its point of departure for a class that blends cultural theory with current experiments in curating, social practice and performance. Through a combination of readings, discussions and deployment, students will study the history, aesthetics, labor and conventions for parties from the intimate to the public, religious to the secular. Designed as a theory and practice art history class, Party As Form challenges participants to experience Ox-Bow, a site for gathering, community, participation and production, through the lens of readings in sociology, cultural and art theory on ideas that critically address the event, celebration or party as the gathering, hosting and cultivating of a group. Topics include: liminality, community, formation of publics, spectacle, utopias, leisure, play and ecstasy. Class consists of a combination of reading and discussion, lectures and presentations alongside projects that anchor discussion through interpretation, conceptualization and the full design and hosting of on-site events. Students taking the course for Art History credit write critical and/or scholarly papers that locate their party or event within the context of contemporary art and art history. Students taking the course for Sculpture credit will be required to design, fabricate, and implement objects and scenarios that relate to the directives of the course. Party forms may include: weddings, raves, galas, Cinco de Mayo, parades, tea parties, debutante balls, masquerades, bar mitzvahs, Mardi Gras, New Years Eve, Chinese New Year, 4th of July, Bastille Day, Burning Man, sleepovers and more.NOTE: SAIC students must have already taken Art History 1001 & 1002 in order to enroll in this course.

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- Shannon Stratton -

Shannon Stratton is the Chief Curator at the Museum of Arts and Design. She was the founder and then Executive Director of Threewalls from 2003-2012. Her practice spans curating, organization building, writing prose and poetry and a past as a fiber artist and T-shirt designer.

- Ben Fain -

Ben Fain (American, born London 1980, lives New York) is best known for his public performances and films involving parade floats as allegorical sculptures. His parades and parade floats have been deployed in diverse communities around the country. Ben received his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2008. He has been awarded a Joan Mitchell Foundation Residency Grant, as well as a NEA grant (with collaborators Dos Pestaneos). Fain co–ran Alogon Gallery, an independent artist–run space in Chicago. He recently taught the self–designed course “The Parade Float as Guerrilla Art,” through Northwestern University’s Department of Art Theory and Practice.

"I cannot find my centre of gravity." Mary Anne Atwood—This class utilizes and facilitates ways of perceiving beyond the human machine. Using various light sensitive media, the darkroom, film and digital cameras, solar and night time telescopes, binoculars, sound recorders, and night vision cameras, we explore time and the properties of waves. We will produce images, videos, sound installations, and performances. Beyond studio work we will look into art, cinema, and literature works exploring themes in science, time, and perception. Practices by numerous artists will be explored including but not limited to James Turrell, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Werner Herzog, Simon Starling, Carsten Nicolai, Sarah Charlesworth and Alan Lightman.

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- Sarah and Joseph Belknap -

Sarah Belknap and Joseph Belknap are Chicago-based interdisciplinary artists and educators who received their MFAs from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Working as a team since 2008, their art has been exhibited in artist-run exhibition spaces in Springfield, Brooklyn, Detroit, Minneapolis, Kansas City, and St. Louis. In addition, they have presented performances at institutions throughout Chicago, including the Chicago Cultural Center, Hyde Park Art Center, and Links Hall. Their work has been shown at the Columbus Museum of Art, The Arts Club of Chicago, the Chicago Artists’ Coalition, Western Exhibitions, and a solo show at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. They are currently working on a solo show at Illinois State University that will open during the Fall of 2018. In addition to the show they are collaborating with ISU’s planetarium to produce programming and are working with the city of Normal, IL to produce a large scale public installation.

This interdisciplinary seminar and studio course examines notions of blackness and the pastoral. We will discuss art works and readings related to concepts of the gothic, identity, race, cultural studies and the landscape. In addition to more traditional processes including papermaking, cyanotype, relief printing and creative writing exercises, faculty will support and cultivate diverse approaches to media, such as performance, site-specific installation, and field recording. Readings will include excerpts from Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry Ed. by Camille T. Dungy; Demonic Grounds: Black Women and The Cartographies of Struggle byKatherine McKittrick; and White: Essays on Race and Culture by Richard Dyer; in addition to media screenings of Get Out by Jordan Peele, Swimming in Your Skin Again by Terence Nance, and Falling to get here by Suné Woods.

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- Ayanah Moor -

Ayanah Moor is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice takes the form of individual action, collaboration, and participation. Her creative tools include printmedia, painting, drawing, and performance. Moor’s visual field, black vernacular and gender performance, operate within the discourse of authorship, sampling, and appropriation. She has exhibited at The Andy Warhol Museum, The Studio Museum in Harlem, Wexner Center for the Arts, One Archives—University of Southern California Libraries and The Mattress Factory Art Museum. Dan S. Wang & Anthony Romero’s 2016 book, The Social Practice that is Race, described her work alongside Hank Willis Thomas and Ellen Gallagher as “carrying forward a new black arts tradition.” Moor completed her BFA at Virginia Commonwealth University and MFA at Tyler School of Art. She is currently Chair of the Department of Printmedia at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

- Krista Franklin -

Krista Franklin’s poems and visual art have appeared in Poetry, Black Camera, Copper Nickel, Callaloo, Vinyl, BOMB Magazine, Encyclopedia, Vol. F-K and Vol. L-Z, and the anthology The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop. Willow Books published Study of Love & Black Body, her chapbook of poems, in 2012. Franklin’s work has exhibited at The Obama Foundation Summit, The Studio Museum in Harlem, Chicago Cultural Center, The Cornell Fine Arts Museum, The Columbia Museum of Art, National Museum of Mexican Art, and featured on 20th Century Fox’s Empire. She holds an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts – Book & Paper from Columbia College Chicago.

In Questioning Landscape students are invited to redefine their perceptions of the landscape through various approaches to observational painting. While gaining proficiency in the techniques and vocabulary of painting, students will develop new ways of representingthe landscape outside notions of the “serene” and “pastoral”. This class focuses on capturing everyday objects and visual culture found within the local landscape. Beginning with preparatory works on paper, we will move on to using acrylic or oil paints to realize finished pieces.In this class students will be challenged to experiment with the material properties of paint as well as the principles and elements of design. Students will be expected to contribute constructively to discussions about the work of their classmates. Additionally the instructor will provide theoretical and visual resources to inform students’ use of form and content.

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- Carris Adams -

Carris Adams is a visual artist whose practice consists of drawings and paintings that reference signs and signifiers in the landscape pointing to systemic inequality and resilience. The conceptually multi-layered works seek to inform and position viewers to recognize their reactions concerning class and othered bodies. Adams received her BFA from the University of Texas at Austin and her MFA from the University of Chicago.

Students will survey a wide variety of techniques using standard glass tools and equipment while also receiving more specialized instruction on particular techniques and processes to pursue specific projects. Through demonstrations, discussions, and experimentation students will build a deeper understanding of the medium and the best methods to realize their ideas. This course will teach glassblowing basics and assist experienced students in furthering their own abilities. Beginning glassblowers and advanced students alike will oscillate between tradition and experimentation in order to find the perfect method through which to realize their desired form or concept.

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- Tim Belliveau -

Tim Belliveau is an artist and teacher working primarily in glass, ceramic and 3D software, blending sculptural materials made by hand with geometric prints and renderings made on computer. Belliveau was born in Montréal and received his BFA in glass from the Alberta College of Art and Design in 2005. He co-founded Bee Kingdom glass studio in 2005 as well as Berlin’s first public glass studio, Berlin Glas e.V. in 2012. He was a 2017 resident at the Europees Keramisch Werkcentrum (EKWC) in the Netherlands and currently lives and teaches in Montréal. His work with the Bee Kingdom collective has been exhibited at the Cheongju Craft Biennale, The Pergamon Museum and at the Pictoplasma festival in Monterrey, Mexico.

Students will be introduced to various methods used in making intaglio prints. Demonstrated techniques will include etching, drypoint, and aquatint, as well as a variety of experimental approaches to plate-making and printing. Discussion and critique of work will be included with equal emphasis on technique and concept.

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- John O’Donnell -

John O’Donnell is an Assistant Professor of Printmaking at the University of Connecticut. He has been making prints for 21 years and his current printmaking and drawing practice investigates “Hollow Earth Theory” which is a fantastic idea that the earth is hollow and composed of multiple layers of different subterranean realties. In addition to being a dedicated printmaker he is also a multidisciplinary artist and performer. He has exhibited his prints at the Print Center in Philadelphia, the International Print Center in New York and Seoul Museum of Art in Seoul, South Korea. He has created performance and installation pieces for Blue House Arts, Dayton, OH; Glass Box Gallery, Seattle, WA; New Britain Museum of American Art; Museum of New Art in Detroit, MI; Proof Gallery in Boston, MA; FluxSpace in Philadelphia, PA; and SOHO20 Gallery in New York, NY.

Drawing upon the natural terrain of Ox-Bow, students explore drawing, design, composition and creativity. A wide variety of drawing materials are used. Slide lectures, critiques, and meetings with visiting artists are included each evening.Note to parents/guardians: All Pre-College students are required to reside on campus during the course. Students are chaperoned and rules and regulations are strictly enforced. An adult chaperone is housed with Pre-College students throughout the week. Students must provide their own transportation to and from Ox-Bow. Pre-College students are not allowed to have vehicles on campus.

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- E.W. Ross -

E.W. Ross“Pablo’s Owl in Landscape” 2012,ink on paper

E.W. Ross is an artist based in Chicago. He has taught at SAIC, University of Chicago, University of Minnesota, Atlanta College of Art, Western Michigan University and the Ox-Bow School of Art and Artists’ Residency. Previously, he served as the Program Director at Ox-Bow and the Dean of Continuing Studies at SAIC. He has had solo exhibitions at the Chicago Cultural Center; Cajarc, France; Phipps Center for the Arts, Hudson, WI; Chicago Firehouse and earned the Illinois Arts Council Individual Artist’s Fellowship; Chicago Council of Fine Arts; Alliance of Independent Colleges of Art Grant; School of the Art Institute Faculty Enrichment Grants; and IAC Governor’s International Arts Exchange Grant.

- Olivia Petrides -

Olivia PetridesBlue, 2015ink and gouache on paper

Olivia Petrides has exhibited in galleries and museums in Iceland, the Faroe Islands, Scotland, Seattle, Washington, D.C., and Chicago. Her works are in the collections of the Smithsonian Institution; the United States Park Service; the Field Museum; the Illinois State Museum; Openlands Preservation Association; and Iceland’s Hafnarborg Institute of Art, among others. She has received a Fulbright Grant; American-Scandinavian Foundation Grants; Margaret Phillips Klimek Fellowship; Chicago Community Arts Assistance Program grant; an Illinois Arts Council Governor’s International Exchange Award and an Illinois Arts Council Special Projects Award. She has been awarded residencies at the Rekjavik Municipal Museum and the Gil-society in Iceland; the Faroe Islands Museum of Natural History; the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts; the Vermont Studio Center; Catwalk, New York; Yellowstone National Park; and the Ragdale Foundation. Petrides received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she is currently an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Painting & Drawing Department and the Visual Communications Department.

This course will encourage students to study, imagine, and shape new possibilities for the architectural folly. A folly is a type of ornamental building or structure with no practical purpose that offers dimension and shapes one’s experience of the landscape. It urges toward a destination, provides space for reflection, or gives shelter. Clay and its potential for building will be the ideal material used to explore these ideas. Through charrettes, drawing, model making, and the hand building of clay forms students will explore site-responsive work. Students will work individually and collaboratively to fabricate both in the studio and landscape. Class demos, site visits, and discussions will challenge attitudes towards materiality, scale, proportion, and location.

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- Linda Sormin -

Through objects and site-responsive installations, Linda Sormin’s work explores issues of fragility, aggression, mobility, survival and regeneration. Born in Bangkok, Thailand, Sormin moved to Canada with her family at the age of five. Sormin worked in community development for four years in Thailand and Laos. She studied ceramics at Andrews University, Sheridan College and Alfred University. Sormin is Associate Professor of Ceramics at New York State College at Alfred University. Sormin’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, most recently at the Everson Museum, Disjecta Contemporary Art Center, Bluecoat Art Gallery, Ferrin Contemporary, National Gallery of Indonesia, Jogja National Museum and SaRang Building in Indonesia, the West Norway Museum of Decorative Art, Denver Art Museum and gl Holtegaard in Denmark.

- Dawn Franklin -

Architecture is everywhere. From basic utility to astonishing complexity, it is a constant presence surrounding the most mundane and spectacular of human activities. The practice of creating architecture is informed by our experience of what is transgressive, pleasing and necessary for comfort, safety, conservation, economy and delight. Dawn Franklin’s daily work in the 20 years since graduating from Andrews University with a B.Arch. degree has been the practice of creating architecture. Architecture that solves problems; is concerned with visual expressiveness; is occupied with materiality, form, scale; and strives toward imaginative and technical skill. She finds it to be a complicated, engaging balancing act that is at moments contemplative and solitary; but is most often a collaborative ensemble performance with clients, engineers, government and construction professionals all shouting their parts. Dawn is a project architect at Collins Cooper Carusi Architects in Atlanta, Georgia.

This class focuses on contemporary and traditional hot glass working techniques. Class projects invite an exploration of what works, and why. Students will develop their own designs and integrate concepts of heating, cooling, and gravity with their existing bodies of work. Demonstrations include traditional vessel forms, a survey of freehand sculpting techniques, plus intentional deviation from standard practice. Personal expression and technical skill will play into the texture of optics achieved. The history of this challenging and demanding substance will help examine the dichotomy between glass as craft material and fine art medium.

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- Arlo Fishman -

Arlo Fishman is an artist and educator in the San Francisco Bay Area. His work spans several disciplines, including glass sculpture, electronic kinetics, and music composition. Arlo is a second generation glass blower and neon bender. He is also a highly skilled art installer who has installed sculptural neon at museums and institutions including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Walker Art Center, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Presently a faculty member at the Crucible, Arlo aims to dazzle, educate, and inspire awe through expert technological integration in art.

Arlo FishmanWall Sign; Neon, 2013glass, (found and fabricated)

-Lancelot S. Fraser -

Lancelot S. Fraser grew up in the small mountain community of Idyllwild, California. At a young age he learned the craft of pottery and decided that he was going to be an artist. Lance began working with glass at Palomar College and received his BFA form California College of the Arts. He has attended the Pilchuck Glass School, Penland School of Crafts, Eugene Glass School, Appalachian Center for Crafts, and has taught at Ox-Bow School of Art. Lancelot is currently working as the Glass Studio Manager at California College of the Arts and Glass Faculty at The Crucible.

Accumulation, layering, and juxtaposition of images allow us to tell complex stories while simultaneously pointing to layers of societal reference. In this course, students will be introduced to various approaches to collage and basic animation techniques to create works that are embedded with personal meaning. Students will activate their compositions through performative projections, interactions with landscape, written or spoken text or as an online gif. More than static images on walls, these works will be experienced and expressed in relationship to the world they inhabit.

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- Shani Peters -

Shani Peters (b. 1981 Lansing, MI) is a multi-disciplinary artist based in New York City. Her practice encompasses community building, activism histories, and the creation of accessible imaginative experiences. Peters holds a BA from Michigan State University and an MFA from the City College of New York. She has presented work in the U.S. and abroad at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in New York City; Seoul Art Space Geumcheon in South Korea; and the National Gallery of Zimbabwe in Harare. Selected residencies include those hosted by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, The Laundromat Project, and Project Row Houses. Her work has been supported by the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, the Rauschenberg Foundation, Rema Hort Mann Foundation, and the Joan Mitchell Foundation. Peters is a university and museum educator, focusing her teaching at the intersection of art and social change.

Ox-Bow provides a wonderful opportunity to observe many species of native birds in various habitats. This class will utilize the forest, meadow, dune, and lake in the vicinity by learning to identify local species followed by conducting observational research on select species. Worldwide distribution of the different bird families will then be looked at. The physics of flight, bird anatomy and physiology will be discussed. Lectures regarding egg laying, ecological and evolutionary adaptations and environmental influences on synchronization of egg hatching, food availability, predator/prey relationships, and migrations will be augmented by field trips to local zoos and museums. One identification test and two original written bird lab research papers will be required.

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- Dr. Dianne Jedlicka -

Dianne Jedlicka

Dr. Dianne Jedlicka teaches numerous Biology courses at SAIC including Animal Behavior, Evolutionary Mammalogy, Ecology, and Human Anatomy and Physiology. Her primary research has been at the community level of organization focusing on the feeding strategies and predation of tree and ground squirrels based on their functional morphology. She recently published observational data collected on nocturnal foraging of the eastern cottontail rabbit. All of these animals are found throughout the Ox-Bow region and offer Dr. Jedlicka’s students ample opportunity for scientific observations. Dr. Jedlicka has also presented and published articles on new teaching methods and labs in the college classroom. Papers on mirror neurons and their implications for group behaviors is a current study topic of the Animal Behavior students. Mammals, birds, and of course, our own lagoon turtles will provide much insight into the animal kingdom.

This course will present a variety of oil and water-based monotype techniques including chine colle, block printing, painted and photographic image transfers, and over-printing. Monotype is a versatile process incorporating chance and improvisation, and can be performed in the landscape as well as in the studio. Painters as well as printmakers will find this a dynamic new medium that is perfect for the home studio.

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- Aay Preston-Myint -

Aay Preston-Myint is an artist, printmaker, and educator living in Chicago, USA. His practice employs both visual and collaborative strategies to investigate memory and kinship, often within the specific context of queer community and history. In addition to his own work in interdisciplinary media, he is a founding member and chief organizer of several collectives and collaborative projects including: No Coast, an artist partnership that prints and distributes affordable contemporary artwork; the Chicago Art Book Fair, an annual event dedicated to showcasing emerging directions and diverse legacies within small press arts publishing; and Chances Dances, a party that supports and showcases the work of queer artists in Chicago.

This all level course concentrates on drawing and painting techniques. Specimens, birds, mammals, and insects from the Chicago Field Museum are provided so that students can draw from life and learn the layering watercolor technique. Field studies are encouraged so students can juxtapose animal life with suitable habitat. Modeling, measuring, building greys and browns, color theory is taught and demonstrated. Watercolor is a versatile medium and explorations of its many possibilities are encouraged.

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- Peggy Macnamara -

Peggy Macnamara has been Artist in Residence at the Field Museum in Chicago since 1990. She has published five books; Painting Wildlife published by Watson-Guptill and four others on nests, Illinois insects, migration and the return of the peregrine falcon with University of Chicago Press. She has a book on collections coming out in the Fall of 2017. Peggy is an Adjunct Professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She teaches scientific illustration, colored pencil and watercolor techniques. She also lectures and teaches workshops around the country. She has exhibited widely and has work in many collections such as the New York State Museum, Field Museum, Elmhurst Museum, Illinois State Museum, and Woodson Art Museum.

She is the recipient of the Cora Bliss Taylor Fellowship for Distinguished Painters. Cora Bliss Taylor was a beloved watercolor teacher in Saugatuck and at Ox-Bow. Her strong vision and inspiring teaching capabilities le a great impression on her students, and many of her paintings hang in public spaces in Saugatuck/Douglas, providing a visual history of this community. The Taylor Fellowship was established by the Warnock family in 2000 to honor Cora Bliss and has in the past been used to bring eminent Visiting Artists to the Ox-Bow campus including Francois Mechain, Frances Whitehead, Susanna Coey, Ellen Lanyon, Olive Ahyens, Shona MacDonald, and Gladys Nilsson.

This fast-paced course is designed for both beginners and advanced artists, (and will be offered in a two-week sequence). Week one focuses on traditional methods with stone lithography, and week two introduces students to photomechanical lithography using both hand-drawn and digital processes. Students are encouraged to investigate personal directions in their work as they explore lithographic possibilities through editions and unique variants. Emphasis will be placed on both conceptual and technical development, and additional demonstrations will be added based on the specific interests and needs of the participants. Class consists of demonstrations, presentations, work time, discussions, and critiques. Historical and contemporary lithographic examples will be presented in order to clarify the relationships between idea, context, material, and process.

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- Danny Miller -

Danny Miller is an artist and musician working in Chicago, IL. Utilizing woodblock, lithographic printing and drawing, he conjures works inspired by science fiction pulp covers, Victorian engravings, advertisements, comic books and music. Miller has taught at Ohio State University, University of Wisconsin-Madison, SAIC and Ox-Bow School of Art and has been the Printmedia Department Manager at SAIC for 29 years. He received his MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and has worked in professional print shops including Landfall Press, Normal Editions Workshop and Four Brothers Press, in addition to playing and teaching traditional fiddle and banjo music at the Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago.

- Kristina Paabus -

Kristina Paabus earned her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has exhibited her work throughout the U.S. and Europe, and recent exhibitions include NEO Geo at the Akron Art Museum, Belt and Road at The National Gallery of Bulgaria, and the grass is the same color over there at Gallery Metropol in Estonia. Paabus is the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship for Installation Art in Estonia, the Grant Wood Fellowship in Printmaking at The University of Iowa, and the Southern Graphics Council International Guanlan Residency Award. Kristina has attended numerous artist residences such as ACRE, Ox-Bow, Women’s Studio Workshop, Emmanuel College, SÍM, MUHU A.I., Guanlan Original Printmaking Base, NCCA Kronstadt, and Anderson Ranch Art Center. Paabus is Associate Professor of Reproducible Media at Oberlin College.

What if a painting became something other than a fixture on a wall? What if it was clothing, a rug for a room, or a by-product of a dance? What if we invited the anthropomorphization of an art work? This class takes traditional painting and turns it on its head. Upending conventional concepts (color, light, and scale) and classically formatted art academy practices (plein air, life studies, and emulation), we will focus on daily exercises and experiments during the first week, while the second week will be reserved for a final project. Media usage will be demonstrated and applied including collage, monotype, screen printing, painting, stitching, and stenciling. Materials other than canvas will be used as substrates. Determining the best media for the application, we will examine the effects of watercolor, gouache, acrylic, spray, and oil paints— while along the way tearing, layering, and reconfiguring. Let’s explore and translate existing models of artmaking to reinvent what painting can be and do!

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- Paula Wilson -

Paula WilsonMooning, 2016made in collaboration with the University of Oregon monotype, screen print, woodblock print, and spray paint on muslin

Paula Wilson is a visual artist whose multimedia practice employs an extensive range of techniques to explore perceptions of light, form, and the body in space. Wilson’s work varies widely, encompassing sculpture, densely layered collage, painting, installation, and printmaking methods. Her subject matter is equally multifaceted, drawing inspiration from real and invented cultural histories and identities exploring myth, race and the dimensions of femininity. Based in Carrizozo, New Mexico, Paula Wilson’s work is included in the collections of The Studio Museum in Harlem, Yale University Art Gallery, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, and Saatchi Gallery, among others. Previous solo exhibitions have been at Cherry & Lucic Portland, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, and the Center for Contemporary Arts in Santa Fe. She holds an MFA from Columbia University and presently co-runs the artist-founded organization MoMAZoZo and the Carrizozo Colony.

This multi-level ceramics course will incorporate wheel thrown and hand built vessels and objects to be fired in both a high temperature stoneware gas kiln and in Ox-Bow’s single chambered catenary style wood kiln that was built in 2005. The first part of the course will be making individual work and firing the gas kiln with the second part being a collaborative effort in loading, firing, and unloading the work in the wood kiln. Discussions, critiques, and slide lectures will be included.

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- Benjamin Lambert -

Benjamin is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Art and Design at Alma College in Alma, Michigan. He grew up in the small, rural town of Greene, Maine, spending time exploring the woods and rivers around his home. In 2008, he received a BFA with a concentration in ceramics from the University of Southern Maine. Between schooling, he maintained an active studio practice in Portland, Maine. In 2010, he worked as a summer staff member at Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, in Newcastle, Maine. He completed an MFA in Ceramics and Sculpture at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, Edinboro, PA in 2015. Ben has assisted artists during workshops at Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Deer Isle, Maine, and most recently at Arrowmont School of Art and Craft in Gatlinburg, TN. He was also a participant as a resident in the second annual Arrowmont Pentaculum. He exhibits his work nationally.

- Nathan Willever -

Nathan Willever was raised in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Ceramics from Maine College of Art, in Portland, Maine. He has taught numerous classes and workshops on functional pottery at institutions such as The Clay Studio in Philadelphia, PA, Ox-Bow School of Art in Saugatuck, Michigan and Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Deer Isle, ME. Nathan is currently a long term Resident and Zeldin Fellow at The Clay Studio.

This course offers hands-on glassblowing experience to the beginner. Participants learn a variety of techniques for manipulating molten “hot glass” into vessel or sculptural forms. Lectures, videos, demonstrations, and critiques will augment studioinstruction.

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- Megan Biddle -

Megan BiddleThe Weight of Waiting (detail), 2015slumped window glass

Megan Biddle is an interdisciplinary artist whose work orbits between sculpture, installation, drawing and video. Rooted in glass, she produces experiment and process driven work with an emphasis on materials and their distinct characteristics. As an observer of nature she responds to the elusive and subtle, reflecting on variations of time, cycles of growth and erosion. She has attended residencies at The Macdowell Colony, The Jentel Foundation, The Creative Glass Center of America, Sculpture Space, The Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Pilchuck Glass School, Northlands Creative Glass in Scotland and Haystack Mountain School of Crafts. Her work was acquired into the American Embassy’s permanent collection in Riga, Latvia. She has taught at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts and Pilchuck Glass School and currently teaches in the Glass Program at the Tyler School of Art. She is an Assistant Director and member of Tiger Strikes Asteroid Gallery in Philadelphia, PA, where she lives and works.

This one week intensive course will introduce students to mold making and casting techniques as well as various approaches to applying surface treatments and imagery to sculpted objects. In addition to tutorials in painting, surface finishing and decoupage techniques, students will have the opportunity to learn to utilize hydro-printing, a process for layering digital imagery on 3-D forms. Typically used in industrial applications, water transfer printing will allow students to re-imagine their sculptures, rich with surface images. Through a variety of hands-on practica, we will consider both the origins of the objects that surround us and their inherent reproducibility. Students will select and create objects for casting and create reproductions with their new skills. Emphasis will be placed on the relationship between form and surface, and the poetics of material composition and exterior/surface appearance.

Christopher Meerdo is a Chicago-based artist who grew up in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and Lithuania. Meerdo’s work was recently featured in a year-long solo exhibition at the Mattress Factory Museum of Contemporary Art in Pittsburgh. He was an artist in residence at the SIM Program in Reykjavik, Iceland and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2013. Meerdo received his MFA in Photography from the University of Illinois at Chicago and currently teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Recent exhibitions include Exgirlfriend, Berlin; The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL; Coco Hunday, Tampa, FL; Floating Museum, Chicago, IL; Cabinet Magazine, Brooklyn, NY; SIM Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland; The National Gallery of Kosovo and a traveling exhibition in Birmingham and Leicester, UK..

Using the historic, time-honored wet-plate collodion and platinotype processes students will move between the studio, community, and natural environment at Ox-Bow to create images and photographic objects. These courses can be taken sequentially for two weeks or individually for one week. The first week will focus on wet-plate collodion; students will explore the fundamentals of large format photography using analog view cameras to create glass-plate negatives in the field. Mobile, onsite darkrooms will allow instant gauging in progress and results. Glass plates can stand alone as photographic objects, or be reproduced in photographic printing. During week two students will work with platinotype printing, one of the most stable photographic processes. Students will use the traditional iron-based developing-out process of platinum palladium. Using digital cameras and laptops to capture images, they will digitally print negatives to be used in this unique tactile process. Those who participate in wet-plate collodion will be able to print directly from their glass plate negatives.

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- Jaclyn Silverman -

Jaclyn SilvermanAbby and Grace, 2017ambrotype

Jaclyn Silverman is a photographer from Youngstown, Ohio, living in Chicago, Illinois. She received her BFA in Photography from The Ohio State University, and her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her photographic work and research has been exhibited in Columbus, Ohio, Youngstown, Ohio, Chicago, Illinois, and Boulder, Colorado, and collected by the Ohio State University, The Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection, and The Art Institute of Chicago. Silverman has been a Visiting Lecturer at The Ohio State University and Part-time Professor at Dominican University. She is currently a Teaching Artist at the Marwen Institute in Chicago, Illinois and a returning faculty to Ox-Bow School of Art.

- Robert Clarke-Davis -

woody point, 2005platinotype

Robert Clarke-Davis has served as an Associate Professor in Photography at SAIC since 1990. He earned his BA from Beloit College and an MA at the University of London, Goldsmiths’ College, School of Art and Design. His work has exhibited at Cleveland Museum of Art; Milwaukee Art Museum; Wuk Kunsthalle, Vienna; and Magyar Fotogr’fiai M’zeum Kesckem’t, Hungary. His work is held in the collections of the Cleveland Museum of Art; Fine Arts Library, Indiana University, IN; Impressions Gallery, North Yorkshire; The Rooms Corporation of Newfoundland and Labrador. He is represented by James Baird Gallery.

This fast-paced course is designed for both beginners and advanced artists, (and will be offered in a two-week sequence). Week one focuses on traditional methods with stone lithography, and week two introduces students to photomechanical lithography using both hand-drawn and digital processes. Students are encouraged to investigate personal directions in their work as they explore lithographic possibilities through editions and unique variants. Emphasis will be placed on both conceptual and technical development, and additional demonstrations will be added based on the specific interests and needs of the participants. Class consists of demonstrations, presentations, work time, discussions, and critiques. Historical and contemporary lithographic examples will be presented in order to clarify the relationships between idea, context, material, and process.

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- Danny Miller -

Danny Miller is an artist and musician working in Chicago, IL. Utilizing woodblock, lithographic printing and drawing, he conjures works inspired by science fiction pulp covers, Victorian engravings, advertisements, comic books and music. Miller has taught at Ohio State University, University of Wisconsin-Madison, SAIC and Ox-Bow School of Art and has been the Printmedia Department Manager at SAIC for 29 years. He received his MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and has worked in professional print shops including Landfall Press, Normal Editions Workshop and Four Brothers Press, in addition to playing and teaching traditional fiddle and banjo music at the Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago.

- Kristina Paabus -

Kristina Paabus earned her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has exhibited her work throughout the U.S. and Europe, and recent exhibitions include NEO Geo at the Akron Art Museum, Belt and Road at The National Gallery of Bulgaria, and the grass is the same color over there at Gallery Metropol in Estonia. Paabus is the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship for Installation Art in Estonia, the Grant Wood Fellowship in Printmaking at The University of Iowa, and the Southern Graphics Council International Guanlan Residency Award. Kristina has attended numerous artist residences such as ACRE, Ox-Bow, Women’s Studio Workshop, Emmanuel College, SÍM, MUHU A.I., Guanlan Original Printmaking Base, NCCA Kronstadt, and Anderson Ranch Art Center. Paabus is Associate Professor of Reproducible Media at Oberlin College.

This experimental course will highlight materials and technologies of lighting and light fixture design. Through hands-on demonstrations and practical exercises students will investigate the different qualities of light and its varied relationships to space, as well as its relationships to viewers. Students will employ these principles to develop original light fixtures and/or light installations. Students will gain knowledge and competency in the use of light as a generative material in their studio practice, as well as comprehension of the effects of light on our perception of space and form.

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- Chris Buchakjian -

Chris Buchakjian was born and raised in upstate New York. His current studio practice is concerned with the relationship between Light, Thing-ness, and Monumentality. Chris trained as a motion picture lighting designer specializing in remote location filming. He has had the privilege of leading lighting crews into caves, tombs and tunnels on five continents. In that time he has been tasked with creating original light fixtures for feature films and documentary television series. For over 15 years he has been working with light-artists to facilitate the creation of large-scale lighting installations. He enjoys the challenges and technical complexities that are unique to this vocation. His visual art has been exhibited as part of the annual Autumn Lights show in Los Angeles, Activate/Chicago, and at the A to Z West in Joshua Tree, California. Chris holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Filmmaking from Hofstra University and a Master’s Degree in Design from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

This course for beginning to advanced students will include extensive experimentation with materials and techniques through individual painting problems. Emphasis will be placed on active decision-making to explore formal and material options as part of the painting process in relation to form and meaning. Students will pursue various interests in subject matter. Students may choose to work with oil-based media. Demonstrations, lectures and critiques will be included.

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- Josh Reames -

Josh Reamescycles, 2017acrylic on canvas

Josh Reames (born 1985, Dallas, TX) received an MFA from the Art Institute of Chicago and a BFA from University of North Texas. He has presented his work at Andrea Rosen Gallery, Jacob Lewis Gallery, The Hole, Josh Lilley Gallery, Andrew Rafacz, Bill Brady Gallery, LVL3, Johannes Vogt, Monya Rowe Gallery, and the Urban Institute for Contemporary Art; at Brand New Gallery, Galeria Annaruma, and Dittrich & Schlechtriem. Reames’ work has been featured in Artillery, Artcritical, Hyperallergic, Artnews, New American Paintings, and Artslant. Reames currently lives and works in New York.

- Siebren Versteeg -

Siebren Versteeg was born about 17k days ago in New Haven. He has studied at School of Visual Arts in New York, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, University of Illinois at Chicago and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Solo exhibitions include The Museum of Art at Rhode Island School of Design; Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY; The Art Institute of Boston; the Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio; Max Protetch, New York; Rhona Hoffman Gallery and The Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. His work has been exhibited in group shows at Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC; ESSL Museum, Vienna; Contemporary Museum, Baltimore; Henry Art Gallery, Seattle; Krannert Art Museum, Illinois; the Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia; and the National Museum of Art, Czech Republic. Versteeg’s work can be found in public collections including the Guggenheim, NY; Albright-Knox, Buffalo; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT; Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C.; and MCA, Chicago. He lives and works in New York.

Participants will learn to carve and print wood block narratives that are bound into book forms. Using the relief print and some writing, participants will learn single sheet, saddle stitch, perfect and accordion style bookbinding. The binding style of each book is considered with regard to the content it is presenting. Through examples and demonstrations students will learn about papers, using the tools of relief printmaking, as well as tools and materials of bookbinding. Emphasis is on content, self expression, and acquiring skills. No prior experience necessary, writers welcome.

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- Jeanine Coupe Ryding -

Jeanine Coupe Ryding’s work has been shown throughout the U.S. and abroad and her prints and artists books are in multiple museum collections. She focuses primarily on woodcut prints, etchings, artist’s books, drawing and collage, and has founded both Shadow Press and Press 928 in Evanston, Illinois for artist’s books publishing. She received her BA from The University of Iowa and her MFA from Universitat der Kunste, Berlin, Germany. She has received various awards and residencies including Illinois Arts Council Award, Arts Midwest, Frans Masereel Center in Belgium, Roger Brown in Michigan and Anchor Graphics in Chicago. Her work is represented by Atrium Gallery in St. Louis, Olson Larsen Gallery in Des Moines and August Art in London. She has been teaching Printmedia at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago since 1991.

- Myungah Hyon -

Myungah Hyon is an Adjunct Associate Professor in Printmedia at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She earned her BFA from the Ontario College Of Arts and Design and MFA from SAIC. She has exhibited at Printed Matter Inc., NY; Kookmin Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea; Gallery Factory, Seoul, Korea; Riverside Art Center, Riverside, IL; William A. Koehnline Gallery, Des Plaines, IL; Elmhurst Art Museum, IL; Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL; Gallery 312, Chicago, IL and earned awards from Community Artist Assistant Program, City of Chicago; Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture; and Arts Council Korea. www.myungahhyonart.com

This class is intended for multi-level glass students who wish to broaden their scope of this versatile medium. Students will be asked to refine their technical abilities in order to more clearly convey their artistic pursuits. The class will begin by covering basic glass blowing techniques. Through skill building exercises the class will learn to work as a team on large-scale projects. Students will be encouraged to learn, but not take too seriously, the traditional aspects of this process. There will be an emphasis on incorporating other materials both through the glass blowing process and in the finished product.

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- Deborah Adler -

Deborah AdlerPom-Pom, 2015blown glass

Deborah’s career as a glassblower spans nearly two decades. Of that time, 15 years were spent in New York City working from the studios of UrbanGlass and GlassRoots. She has developed several bodies of work and exhibited them at SOFA Chicago and New York, nationally in numerous galleries, and craft shows. Deborah was also lead gaffer on teams fabricating work for prominent contemporary lighting designers. In 2015, Deborah left New York and relocated to Seattle, where she currently works as an artist assistant, while remaining focused on the design and production of her own work. She enjoys drinking coffee with friends, eating sushi, being silly, and going to the gym.

This course will focus on ceramic object making. The word “object” has been specifically chosen, as it is neutral to the divide between the utilitarian tool and the sculptural form. In this class we will view these categories as a continuum to see how these ideas may inform one another. Central to this will be a discussion of how objects relate to each other and the possible sites in which they exists such as home, gallery, or landscape. Each session will have presentations, discussions, technical demonstrations, and critiques integrated into a focused, process-based studio experience.

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- Marie Herwald Hermann -

Marie Herwald Hermannshields and the parergon of time, 2017ceramic and silicone

Marie Herwald Hermann (born 1979, Copenhagen, Denmark) lives and works in Detroit. She received her MFA from Royal College of Art in London in 2009. Solo exhibitions: include Shields and Parergons, Reyes Projects; And dusk turned dawn, Blackthorn, NADA Miami; Northern Light, Pontiac Rise at Galerie Nec, Paris, France: A Gentle Blow to the Rock, Hong Kong. She has participated in group exhibitions in USA, Denmark, Italy, China, Sweden and Germany, including 99cents or less at MOCAD Detroit, and Another Look at Detroit: Parts 1 and 2 at Marianne Bosky Gallery. Her work is represented in the collections of The Danish Art Foundation, The Denver Art Museum, Servre Museum, Nordenfjeldske Kunstindustrimuseum, Cranbrook Art Museum and yhe Jingdezhen Ceramic Art Museum. She was awarded the 2013 Kresge Artist Fellowship and the Danish Art Foundation Grant in 2016. She is currently a Visiting Artist at SAIC.

- Anders Herwald Ruhwald -

Anders Herwald RuhwaldWeather Thinker, 2017glazed earthenware

Anders Herwald Ruhwald (born 1974, Denmark) lives and works in Detroit, He graduated from the Royal College of Art in London in 2005. Ruhwald has had more than 20 solo exhibitions in museums and galleries around the world including MOCA Cleveland, OH, MIMA, The Museum of Art and Design, and the Cranbrook Art Museum. His work has been shown in more than 80 group shows at venues like Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Fondation d’entreprise Ricard, Pinakotek der Moderne, Taipei Yingge Museum, and Kunsthal Charlottenborg. His work is represented in over 20 public museum collections including The Victoria and Albert Museum, The Denver Art Museum, The Detroit Institute of Art, Musée des Arts Décoratifs,The Museum of Art and Design in 2011 he was awarded the Gold Prize at the Icheon International Biennial in South Korea. He also received the Sotheby’s Prize at the Victoria and Albert Museum in 2007.

In this multi-level metal casting course, students will learn the fundamentals of pattern generation, simple and multi-part mold making techniques with sodium silicate bonded sand, casting with bronze, aluminum, and iron, and finishing and patination techniques for their castings. Explorations will be informed by the materiality of molten metal and molding processes, the history and technologies of metal casting, and discussion of cast metal sculpture in contemporary art. In the spirit of “there is no "I" in foundry,” teamwork and safe foundry practices form the foundation of the course. Students will be encouraged to experiment and respond to the natural environment with patterns made at Ox-Bow in an open-air sculpture studio.

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- Liz Ensz -

Liz EnszE Pluribus Unum, 2014,cast pre-Reagan pennies

Liz Ensz was born in Minnesota to a resourceful family of penny-savers, metal scrappers, and curators of cast-offs. She received her BFA in Fiber from the Maryland Institute College of Art and her MFA in Fiber and Material Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Ensz has exhibited her textiles and sculpture nationwide, has been awarded residencies at The John Michael Kohler Arts/Industry Program in Foundry, Sheboygan, WI; Salem Art Works, Salem, NY: Playa, Summer Lake, OR; LATITUDE, Chicago, IL; and Blue Mountain Center, Blue Mountain Lake, NY; and has been the recipient of a City of Chicago DCASE Individual Artist Grant, The Creative Baltimore Fund Grant, The Gilroy Roberts Fellowship for Engraving, and The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Travel Fellowship. With an interdisciplinary approach, her work presents a comparative study of the mass-cultural investment in disposability and the human desire to imagine permanence through emblems, monuments, and commemoration.

- Lloyd Mandelbaum -

Lloyd Mandelbaumlunge cast iron

Lloyd Mandelbaum is a sculptor and entrepreneur currently residing in Hamilton, MI. Lloyd is the owner and operator of Chicago Crucible fine art foundry. He casts bronze, aluminum, and iron for artist and designers as well as in his own sculptural practice using a diverse array of techniques. After earning a BFA in sculpture from SAIC, Lloyd gained experience working in arts foundries before founding Chicago Crucible in 2009. His appreciation for the craft has also led him to design and build foundries across the country and in Mexico to better enable the art-making process, as well as produce foundry equipment commercially.

This course grows out of the 2016 exhibition Organize Your Own curated by Daniel Tucker. The exhibition took as its premise Stokely Carmichael’s fifty-year-old directive to go “organize your own” and featured contributions from forty-plus performers, artists, and writers, including co-instructor Dan S. Wang. Through a mix of curated texts and screenings and open studio production, students will grapple with the controversies and challenges of aesthetically complex political engagement in the era of Trump. Topics covered will range from activist documentation to slogan composition, from phone banking to scenario planning, from theoretical reflection to real-world intervention. Studio assignments will include printmaking, collage, documentary photography, and creative writing. Prompts will be provided while also leaving room for medium-specific and thematic concerns of the students. Finally, skill-based workshops drawing from the traditions of community organizing will be integrated into the course while maintaining a strong focus on the specific contributions that artists and designers can make to urgent discussions about new collectivity and social difference.

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Daniel Tucker

Daniel TuckerOrganize Your Own opening night performance by Jenn Kidwell and Thomas Graves as part of anexhibition curated by Daniel Tucker.Photo by Paul Gargagliano

Daniel Tucker works as an artist, writer and organizer developing documentaries, publications, exhibitions and events inspired by his interest in social movements and the people and places from which they emerge. His writings and lectures on the intersections of art and politics and his collaborative art projects have been published and presented widely. He has a longstanding interest in Chicago and co-founded AREA Chicago magazine, Never The Same oral history and archive, and edited the book Immersive Life Practices as part of the Chicago Social Practice History series developed by SAIC’s Department of Exhibitions & Exhibition Studies. He earned his MFA from University of Illinois at Chicago and BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is an Assistant Professor and founding Graduate Program Director in Socially-Engaged Art at Moore College of Art & Design in Philadelphia. miscprojects.com.

- Dan S. Wang -

Dan S. Wang is an artist, letterpress printer, and writer excited to be co-teaching at Ox-Bow for his second time. Current projects include commissions from Asian Arts Initiative in Philadelphia and the Station Museum of Houston. His writings have been published internationally in journals, exhibition catalogues, and book collections. He has lectured widely, including at the Central Academy in Beijing, Documenta 11, and the third Creative Time Summit. He was a co-founder of the experimental project space Mess Hall in Chicago in 2003. His collaborative writings include the 2016 conversation-essay The Social Practice That Is Race co-authored with Anthony Romero published by the artist run Wooden Leg Press, and the 2015 critical essay In the Back of the Beyond in Global Activism from MIT Press, co-authored with Sarah Lewison.

In this course, students will acquire technicalproficiency in various hand and photographic stencilprinting methods. Individual exploration and development in the medium will be encouraged and supported by both individual instruction and group critiques. Emphasis will be placed on unique prints created by layering, stencil repositioning, and combining hand mark-making with photographic and found imagery. Collaboration will be encouraged.

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- Nick Butcher -

Nick Butcher and Nadine NakanishiUntitled Monoprint, 2017screen print

Nick Butcher is a Chicago-based artist and musician. Since 2006 he’s worked collaboratively with his partner Nadine Nakanishi under the name Sonnenzimmer. Initially recognized for their idiosyncratic commissioned screen printed posters, their practice has since morphed into an interdisciplinary toolshed spanning multiple platforms, including exhibitions, publishing, performance, and graphic design. Their collaborative practice is grounded in the lasting potential of the graphic arts, while exploring the physical and conceptual friction between abstraction and communication. As a solo artist, Nick continues to record and perform music under his own name and the joke DJ name Jan Jammerlappen.

Mat DalyFira 1, 2013silk screened monoprint on panel

- Mat Daly -

Mat Daly (b. 1974) is an artist living and working in Saugatuck, MI. In the past decade Mat’s screen printed posters have become a mainstay of the Chicago indie music, art, and craft scenes as well as covering the walls (indeed maybe bathroom walls) of rock clubs, record stores and galleries across the US and abroad. In addition to being the principal poster designer for the nationally acclaimed Renegade Craft Fair, Mat’s past clients range from The MoMA to The Hideout. Mat’s screen printed work regularly traverses the natural landscape filtered through the distorting lens of memory.

This one-week course introduces the basics of the traditional Chinese and Japanese ink and brush stroke painting. Starting from learning tools and materials, the class concentrates on the basic skills and techniques that students could develop during the course. The philosophy of Zen behind the ink painting is introduced as well. In-class demonstrations are followed by painting, focusing on botanical subjects such as bamboo and other flowers. Birds and fish are introduced in late sessions. This course is especially appropriate for students interested in drawing and watercolor.

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- Qigu Jiang -

Qigu Jiang is an ink painter, teaching painting and art history at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He has also serveed as the director of The Research House for Asian Art since 2008. His exhibitions include the Rhode Island College; Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam; Duoyun Xuan Art Museum, Shanghai; Zhu Jizhan Art Museum; Yantai Art Museum; 99 Art Space Shanghai University Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities in Stockholm; Xuhui Art Museum; Qingdao Art Museum; Qing Zhuo Museum; Koehhnline Museum; Walsh Gallery; Jan Cicero Gallery; Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale, FL; Osaka Triennial, Japan. His work is in the collections of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities in Stockholm; Rothschild Investment Corp.; Telchar System Inc.; Swiss Bank Corp.; Prentiss Properties Corp. Texas; Euredit Co. Italy; Duolun Museum of Modern Art.

What does it mean to draw the face of a person, place, or idea? For centuries, portraiture has been used to record history and build intimacy. With the fundamentals of observational drawing as a starting point, this course explores the boundaries of portrait-making through experimentation with subject, medium, scale, and site. From human faces to car faces, to the faces of our ideas and emotions, we will stretch traditional notions of portraiture through expanded subject matter as well as material choices. Students will work with a range of wet and dry media, including charcoal, graphite, pen, and ink. Slide lectures and critiques will be included to offer additional insight into the history and possibilities of portraiture

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- Ruby T -

Ruby TTENSES zine excerpt,2017risograph on paper

Ruby T’s work is an experiment in translating fantasy to reality, and she is fueled by anger, desire, and magic. She investigates the stimulating, banal, and often infrastructural as sites of power and exchange: nightclubs, domestic appliances, broadcast news, sex. Ruby graduated in 2016 with an MFA from SAIC, and has shown work at Chicago venues including Roots & Culture, Iceberg Projects, Hyde Park Art Center, the Back Room at Kim’s Corner Foods, Ballroom Projects, ACRE, EXPO, Comfort Station, Roman Susan, Chicago Filmmakers, Chicago Alternative Comics Expo, Woman Made Gallery, and Plaines Project. rubyt.net

In this course students learn the basics of copper enameling (fusing glass to copper) and explore the potential of enamel decals. We cover basic enameling techniques such as sifting and explore sophisticated decal techniques. Students create their own decals on campus using laser printed images as well as experiment with decals that are commercially available. Lectures on the histories and applications of this technique augment work in the studio. Group and individual discussions address technical issues of this process and troubleshoot how to incorprate these elements into a completed artwork. This course is for all levels of students. No prior metals or enamel experience is necessary.

FACULTY

- Veleta Vancza -

Veleta Vancza has been working as an artist for almost 30 years. She began her career as an art/studio jeweler creating one-of-a-kind conceptual works. More recently she has been working on a larger scale creating sculpture, wall pieces, and installations using vitreous enamel on metal integrated with new technologies such as sound-mapping, and 3D rendering software. She is recognized for her experimental use of vitreous enamel as an adhesive, as well as her innovations with phosphorescent enamels. Veleta is also the co-founder and Creative Director for Mina Atramentum, makers of Mine Luxury Nail Lacquer www.minelacquer.com, and holds a patent for her research in suspension-based coatings with precious metals & gemstones. Her innovative approach to packaging design has earned her worldwide recognition, and was a finalist for a Clio Image award in 2014. Veleta’s work has been exhibited internationally in venues such as the Museum of Arts & Design (NYC), the Design Museum (Helsinki), the Cheugju International Craft Biennale,and Museum fur Angewandte Kunst. Many of her works have been featured in a variety of books and periodicals such as Sculpture Magazine, Metalsmith Magazine, Marie Claire, WWD Japan, The Boston Globe, 500 Enameled Objects and The Art of Enameling: Techniques, Projects, Inspiration. Her works can be found in the permanent collections of the Kohler Company and the Museum of Arts & Design as well as numerous private collections. Veleta is currently a Professional Lecturer in the Fashion Department at Marist College.

Weaving has often been associated with themes of time, rhythm, meditation, and materiality and for this course we weave small studies in response to these prompts. Students will be encouraged to consider the act of weaving as an end in itself, conceptualizing process, while also learning technical skills including tablet, inkle and finger weaving along with pattern drafting. Woven studies will be developed on small portable looms and from there students will consider how they might invent new loom structures, weave into site-specific locations and create interactive projects. Concepts and theories will be introduced through readings, slide presentations and discussions that will provide the direction and inspiration for each student to develop their own inquiries and inventions.

FACULTY

- Marianne Fairbanks -

Marianne Fairbanks is an Assistant Pofessor in the Design Studies department at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. She received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and her BFA from the University of Michigan. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally in venues including the Museum of Art and Design, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, the Smart Museum of Art and Museum London in Ontario. Her current work is focused on the intersections of social practice, weaving, mathematics, and technology. mariannefairbanks.com and weavinglab.com.